Margaret Cho

Moran Cho was born on Dec. 5, 1968 in San Francisco, CA. The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cho had a very colorful childhood and adolescence growing up on Haight Street in the 1970s. At 16, she started doing stand-up at The Rose & Thistle, a comedy club located above her parents' bookstore, and became a fixture on the San Francisco comedy circuit, traveling with and befriending fellow acerbic comic, Janeane Garofalo. Shortly after, Cho won a comedy contest where the first prize was opening for comedian Jerry Seinfeld. After moving to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Cho's fan base multiplied, boosted by appearances on late-night talk shows and comedy specials such as "Bob Hope Presents th... Continue Bio >>